Mass Effect: Andromeda's latest trailer offers a close up look at the Tempest starship and its Nomad rover
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If you prefer storytelling and exploration over straight up action, then you might want to check out the most recent Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer. Rather than focus on blowing up a whole variety of hostile aliens, the entire 3 minute video is dedicated to the various aspects of the Tempest scout ship and its one-of-a-kind, all-terrain rover Nomad.
So if you're interested in a bit of a different look at Mass Effect: Andromeda, and don't mind the complete lack of action, you'll find the most recent trailer right below. Have a gander:
Funcom has released the full system requirements for Conan Exiles
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Conan Exiles is an upcoming open-world survival game with a heavy focus on teamwork, base-building, and naturally, wrecking everything other people took tons of teamwork to actually build. If you would like to learn more about the gameplay side of things I would recommend you head over here to check out one of the most recent preview videos.
As for the system requirements, you'll be glad to hear that the minimum is most definitely on the reasonable side of things, and odds are the vast majority of you will be able to play Conan Exiles quite comfortably. But if you would like crank everything to ultra, that's going to require one hell of a machine, as you'll see in the full system requirements down below. Have a look:
DiRT Showdown is free on Humble Bundle for the next two days
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If you feel the urge to race around and crash into other drivers the moment you start losing, you're in luck as Humble Bundle is offering DiRT Showdown for free for the next two days. But even if you don't have any inclination towards racing I would still recommend taking them up on this offer as I have a feeling DiRT Showdown is going to be taken off the market rather soon. Car and music licenses don't last forever, and renewing them for fairly old games isn't very economical, so its unfortunately common for racing games to just kind of disappear after a couple of years.
And for those of you interested in seeing what DiRT Showdown is all about, you'll find one of the launch trailers down below. It doesn't feature much in terms of gameplay, but it should give you a general idea of what to expect. Have a look:
Torment: Tides of Numenera's interactive trailer showcases all the ways you can handle a quest
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Torment: Tides of Numenera is an upcoming story-focused RPG heavily inspired by Planescape: Torment. What this means in gameplay terms is that Torment: Tides of Numenera has a massive world filled with interesting characters you can interact with, and even more interesting events you can potentially meddle with.
Its currently in Early Access, but if you would like to give it a try without spending any of your hard earned money, you now have a chance to do so as the developers have released a rather brilliant interactive trailer. The video below will guide you through a single quest and all of the decisions you can make along the way, as well as all of the resolutions you can end up with depending on your choices. So if you're interested in a bit of storytelling, I'd recommend you give it a look:
The closed beta for Ubisoft's For Honor has been announced alongside a new trailer
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If you were hoping to give For Honor a try ahead of its February 14th release date, you'll be glad to hear that Ubisoft has just announced the closed beta schedule. Starting on January 26th and ending on January 29th you'll be able to play as all three factions in an all-out war for domination, with the winners being given a special reward at the very end. What exactly that reward will be, Ubisoft didn't specify, but given that this is their big marketing event I would imagine its going to be something quite special, so don't let your side down!
Besides all of the closed beta information, the announcement also came with a brand new trailer. If you're hoping for some actual gameplay, I'm afraid you won't find it here, but if you're interested in some lovely imagery and loads of nonsense about honor, then you're going to feel right at home. Have a look:
All Heroes of the Storm characters are free to play until January 16th
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If you ever wanted to give Heroes of the Storm a try, now would be the best time to do so as Blizzard has made all of the characters free to play. The promotion will only last until 10am PST on January 16th, so make sure to jump in as soon as possible, or else you might not have enough time to give all of the heroes a proper try.
And if you haven't been paying attention to Heroes of the Storm this past year and are now wondering what in the world has even changed, you'll be glad to hear that Blizzard has posted a brief video summarizing all of the recent additions. Have a look:
Brut@l is an upcoming dungeon crawler with a world constructed entirely out of ASCII characters
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Indie games with a pixel art style are a fairly common sight these days, but I can't say I've seen many that have picked ASCII as their style of choice. But as you can probably guess from the title, Brut@l - an oldschool dungeon crawler with a procedurally generated world constructed entirely out of ASCII characters, belongs to that rather small group.
Since the concept is fairly ambitious, and since most ASCII games were created that way due to technological limitations rather than due to preference, it would probably be wise to first start with a trailer. As such, here's the most recently posted co-op gameplay video to hopefully give you a good idea of what Brut@l is all about. Have a look: